Provocative Quotes · Page 4

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

— Michael Douglas

“I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –”

— Simona Panova

“Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language”

— Clotye Murdock Larsson

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”

— Simona Panova

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.

— Jonah Lehrer

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

— John McTiernan

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

— Vladimir Putin

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

— Madonna Ciccone

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

— Maurizio Cattelan

I love Roger Stone. He's very provocative, and I like that about him. He's not afraid to take risk, and he's not…

— Laura Loomer

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

— Wes Smith

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

— Marc Maron

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it,…

— Jesse Jackson

When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our…

— Margarita Simonyan

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help…

— Jason Isaacs

“It was suddenly heartachingly clear how much he wanted this and how easy it was to imagine it with near provocative clarity.…

— Jessica Park

President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is…

— Steve Inskeep

I think it's important to sort of normalize male nudity on screen, because women are always naked. And none of the male…

— Eliza Hittman

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot…

— Joshua Michael Stern

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are…

— Judith Martin

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch,…

— John Updike

Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the…

— Deborah Harkness

I'm a closeted nerd. I studied Richard Dawkins. I watched every lecture. He's sort of the leading scientific atheist of our time.…

— Michael Pitt

I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love…

— Ellen von Unwerth

“Hey! look at us We're digging and digging Into stubborn, ancient earth; We're discovering Where we came from, and how we came.…

— Lois A. Cheney

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of…

— Peggy Phelan

I was rejected many times. I cried. I was told that female actors are replaceable in films because they just stand behind…

— Priyanka Chopra

“The music is meant to be provocative—which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it’s…

— Jay-Z

We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where…

— Jason Silva

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act…

— Caridad Svich

I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the…

— Lawrence Wright

The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom…

— Vladimir Voinovich

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

— Sam Harris

The very nature of 'UnREAL' is that we are provocative, uncensored, and brutally tactless.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I'm never worried about a joke being 'too provocative.' There's no such thing.

— Matt Rife

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

— Vladimir Putin

Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I…

— Rod Taylor

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

— Polly Allen Mellen